Bonner Beach () is a small, flat beach on the south shore of

Larsen Harbor Larsen Harbour ( es, Bahía Larsen) is a narrow long inlet of indenting volcanic rocks and sheeted dykes known as the Larsen Harbour Formation. It is a branch of Drygalski Fjord, entered west-northwest of Nattriss Head, at the southeast end of ...

in the southeast part of South Georgia. It is the only place in South Georgia where

Weddell seal The Weddell seal (''Leptonychotes weddellii'') is a relatively large and abundant true seal with a circumpolar distribution surrounding Antarctica. The Weddell seal was discovered and named in the 1820s during expeditions led by British sealing ...

s breed. The area was mapped by DI personnel in 1927 and by the

South Georgia Survey The South Georgia Survey was a series of expeditions to survey and map the island of South Georgia, led by Duncan Carse between 1951 and 1957. Although South Georgia had been commercially exploited as a whaling station during the first half of ...

in the period 1951–57, and named by the

UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) and ...

in 1957 for William Nigel Bonner,

Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the United Kingdom's national polar research institute. It has a dual purpose, to conduct polar science, enabling better understanding of global issues, and to provide an active presence in the Antarctic o ...

biologist who worked in the Bay of Isles in 1953–55 and was sealing inspector in South Georgia in 1956–57.

References

* Beaches of South Georgia {{SouthGeorgia-geo-stub